tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post8911304565987141727..comments2024-03-18T11:01:42.459-05:00Comments on Pretty Sinister Books: LEFT INSIDE: Aunt Jemima String PuzzleJ F Norrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-5394324169671358522011-04-04T23:06:33.493-05:002011-04-04T23:06:33.493-05:00Richard -
I'm with you on the history revisio...Richard -<br /><br />I'm with you on the history revisionists. Thankfully, though, Quaker Oats made Aunt Jemima more human and less minstrel show scary.<br /><br />I remember Sambo's! On the East Coast those restaurants were only in the South. No one would tolerate that in New England. Did the company change its name? Did it become Shoney's, maybe? There aren't that many of even those around anymore. Another Google research project in them making.<br /><br />I also had a picture book as a kid about Little Black Sambo but even for one done in the 60s it had been altered slightly. He was a boy in India (make sense with the tigers, no?) and the tigers themselves turned into batter. When his mother (dressed in a a sari) made the pancakes for Sambo they were striped. <br /><br />As for the solution - I have no idea how to do it, but it looks similar to those metal chain and ring puzzles that were popular in pubs. Don't know if a solution was offered in the paper doll book. Pickaninny! There's an awful word you don't hear anymore.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-69136996521610472362011-04-04T18:20:36.798-05:002011-04-04T18:20:36.798-05:00I'm no believer in history revisionism and the...I'm no believer in history revisionism and the PC adamantists can go stick their heads in an empty tuna can, so I have no problem with this, except, as Carol notes, it's kind of a creepy version of the ol' Auntie.<br /><br />I used to have several paper place mats from a restaurant chain of my childhood on the west coast (maybe it was national, I don't know); Sambo's. The name, of course, came from the story of Little Black Sambo, who loved pancakes. He gave away all his clothes to hungry tigers, but got them back when the tigers chased each other round and round the tree Sambo had climbed, turning themselves to butter, which he enjoyed on a huge stack of pancakes. I had the picture book of it when I was a kid, too. Those place mats were lost when the box they were in got wet.<br /><br />I didn't see a place to send for the solution to the puzzle, or was there really one?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-355664605991286752011-04-04T17:01:37.101-05:002011-04-04T17:01:37.101-05:00You can still use her for a Halloween photo-shop c...You can still use her for a Halloween photo-shop contest, when All Hallows Eve is upon us, and award a free book to the sick mind who can morph that face into something even scarier – like the Heath Ledgers Joker or The Candyman in drag. ;DTomCathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03415176301265218101noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-72857109022563760152011-04-04T09:39:37.223-05:002011-04-04T09:39:37.223-05:00I should've saved this for Halloween. She is s...I should've saved this for Halloween. She is spooky, isn't she? Doesn't look like a woman at all - more like Uncle Remus in drag.J F Norrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06473487417479127354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787364257168822822.post-40768273313185559542011-04-04T08:16:05.554-05:002011-04-04T08:16:05.554-05:00Am I the only one who finds this version of AJ sli...Am I the only one who finds this version of AJ slightly creepy? At first glance, she looks like John Wayne Gacy in blackface.Carolhttp://www.carolkcarr.comnoreply@blogger.com